Kurjakovic, SabrinaLammel, BenjaminWoitsch, RobertKritikos, KyriakosHinkelmann, KnutKrogstie, JohnMouratidis, HaralambosSu, Jianwen2017-02-092017-04-212016978-3-319-39564-710.1007/978-3-319-39564-7_18http://hdl.handle.net/11654/24287Business processes can benefit from cloud offerings, but bridging the gap between business requirements and technical solutions is still a big challenge. We propose Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) as a main concept for the alignment of business process with IT in the cloud. The mechanisms described in this paper provide modelling facilities for both business and IT levels: (a) a graphical modelling environment for processes, workflows and service requirements, (b) an extension of an enterprise ontology with cloud-specific concepts, (c) semantic lifting of graphical models and (d) SPARQL querying and inferencing for semantic alignment of business and cloud IT.en330 - Wirtschaft04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift181-192